Middle East Times - Report - Israel has approved deploying several hundred additional Palestinian police in the West Bank town of Hebron as part of an operation to restore order, Israeli public radio reported Wednesday. The deployment, the date for which has yet to be set, was agreed at a meeting Wednesday between officials of the Israeli military and the Palestinian Authority`s security service.

David Lazarus-Canadian Jewish News -"Israel is actually two states. The first is already a “Hebrew-speaking civil society,” but the second is a “state-within-a-state,” where Israeli Arabs do not share with other citizens the obvious rights they are entitled to – such as the right to purchase land – and where Jerusalem is becoming a “Judean reality” dominated by Orthodox Jews and the settlement ethos."

Independent Jewish Voices (Canada)-Press Release - “Unfortunately, there has a systematic attempt to portray Durban I was an ‘anti-Semitic hate-fest’,” Ralph pointed out. “This stems from the fact that at Durban some NGO participants and governments challenged Israel`s racist policies. Instead of addressing the substance of these charges, the government of Israel and those who back it unconditionally chose to brand those who levelled criticism of Israel at Durban as ‘anti-Semitic’..”

Jafar Farah/Omar Jabary Salamanca - Mosawa - The General Attorney and police forces have neglected to act againstracist declarations that include "Death to Arabs" over the last few years, which has resulted in increased hatred and racist attitudes among the population. The internal tensions in Akka reflect current attitudes in different locations all over the country where local and national leaders are inciting violence and racism with resulting cumulative tension and use of violence.

"I was on that night, just three days ago, in Acre`s Eastern Neighborhood, and that was frightening and disgusting. The police first did not let me go in there, they said it was `a closed area`. A Closed Area - in fact, an area where mobs were rampaging in the streets, wildly hunting for Arabs to assault" said Hadash Knesset Member Dov Khenin, at the Jewish-Arab rally held this morning (Oct. 14) at the Acre Esplanade.

Isabel Macdonald - Commondreams - Over the past weeks, 28 million copies of the anti-Muslim propaganda film Obsession: Radical Islam`s War Against the West have been delivered to the doors of newspaper subscribers in swing states. The 2006 documentary, which has been a mainstay of David Horowitz`s "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week," describes "radical Islam" as a menace comparable to Adolf Hitler that, according to the film`s website, "is threatening, with all the means at its disposal, to bow Western civilization under the yoke of its values."

PCHR/Electronic Intifada - Dutch prosecution authorities failed to arrest Ami Ayalon, currently Minister without Portfolio in the Israeli Government, while he was visiting the Netherlands from 16 to 20 May 2008. An application for his arrest was submitted to the Dutch authorities by Khalid al-Shami, who alleged that he was a victim of torture from 1999-2000, when Ami Ayalon was the director of the Shin Bet

Oakland Ross-Toronto Star -"The TV commentators lauded Dagan – who heads Israel`s foreign spy agency, ...But turn to Page 5 of Israeli newspaper Haaretz .."His craft is killing," wrote Levy. "Dagan is our killer of the year. He himself is not the problem. Rather, it`s the disgusting worship of people of his kind .... Only in Israel." (Ed. Note: Since Haaretz is a valuable resource to OM, this article will be of interest to our readers.)"

Robert Jensen-The Electronic Intifada-"But even when we have no illusions about the predatory nature of modern corporate capitalism, there`s something particularly disheartening when a media corporation abandons free-speech principles. Journalists are supposed to be the good guys on freedom of expression, right? If for no other reason than self-interest, shouldn`t media managers support these principles?
Yes, but apparently not when ideology gets in the way, as seems to be the case at Canada`s largest media corporation."